doom
- fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
- ruin; death: to fall to one's doom.
- a judgment, decision, or sentence, especially an unfavorable one: The judge pronounced the defendant's doom.
- the Last Judgment, at the end of the world.
- Obsolete. a statute, enactment, or legal judgment.
- to destine, especially to an adverse fate.
- to pronounce judgment against; condemn.
- to ordain or fix as a sentence or fate.
Origin of doom
Synonyms for doom
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.comRelated Words for doomed
ill-fated, wrecked, cursed, done, overwhelmed, fated, destroyed, unfortunate, reprobate, threatened, lost, ruined, undone, bewitched, damned, sunk, convicted, predestined, foreordained, menacedExamples from the Web for doomed
Contemporary Examples of doomed
Trying to fine-tune all that to a desired end is not only a form of madness but doomed to failure.
Has she been doomed by the science of 2014 to a life of sexual misery?
Imagine if you were doomed forever to live inside a youthful mistake.
The Arab spring failed, but it demonstrated the ancient regimes are doomed unless they change profoundly, which is very unlikely.
Handing the job to the less qualified team, after Northrop and Grumman refused to sign a fixed-price contract, doomed the program.
Historical Examples of doomed
They might only be cruelly holding out hope to one of the doomed.
The Armourer's PrenticesCharlotte M. Yonge
We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline.
But there, as well as in the House, the Irish Establishment was doomed.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
In the hour of triumph the government was doomed to receive a stunning blow.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
It seemed too bright for a thing formed of dust, and doomed to crumble into dust again.
Sylph EtheregeNathaniel Hawthorne
doom
- death or a terrible fate
- a judgment or decision
- (sometimes capital) another term for the Last Judgment
- (tr) to destine or condemn to death or a terrible fate
Word Origin for doom
Word Origin and History for doomed
doom
Old English dom "law, judgment, condemnation," from Proto-Germanic *domaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian dom, Old Norse domr, Old High German tuom, Gothic doms "judgment, decree"), from PIE root *dhe- (cf. Sanskrit dhaman- "law," Greek themis "law," Lithuanian dome "attention"), literally "to set, put" (see factitious). A book of laws in Old English was a dombec. Modern sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" is c.1600, from the finality of the Christian Judgment Day.
doom
late 14c., from doom (n.). Related: Doomed; dooming.